JP Libby
@janlibby.bsky.social
Writer. Just finished a cosmic thriller feature. Working on Snow Town. Former barista for a cult I never joined & failed assistant P.I. 🏳️🌈 ☕️ 🦆 #5AMwritersclub #ARGs #amwriting https://www.linkedin.com/in/janlibby/
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This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
Getting some words down. Happy Thanksgiving #5AMwritersclub ☕
November 27, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Getting some words down. Happy Thanksgiving #5AMwritersclub ☕
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The Trump administration’s cuts to AIDS funding will result in roughly 3 million additional deaths over the next five years.
SCOOP: The Trump administration has instructed employees and grantees not to use U.S. funds to commemorate World AIDS Day — because the observance was started by the World Health Organization.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Trump Administration Cancels U.S. Observance of World AIDS Day
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The Trump administration’s cuts to AIDS funding will result in roughly 3 million additional deaths over the next five years.
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LA River, Glendale Narrows, egrets, horses, sunlight, clear day...
The serenity I need before the holiday. 😎
The serenity I need before the holiday. 😎
November 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
LA River, Glendale Narrows, egrets, horses, sunlight, clear day...
The serenity I need before the holiday. 😎
The serenity I need before the holiday. 😎
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Just announced! MARTY SUPREME advance screening + Gwyneth Paltrow in-person ✨✨
Free, members-only advance screening! MARTY SUPREME (2025) / THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY (1999) in 35mm + Q&A with actor Gwyneth Paltrow.
Coming to the Aero on Wed. 12/10:
www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/...
Free, members-only advance screening! MARTY SUPREME (2025) / THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY (1999) in 35mm + Q&A with actor Gwyneth Paltrow.
Coming to the Aero on Wed. 12/10:
www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/...
November 25, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Just announced! MARTY SUPREME advance screening + Gwyneth Paltrow in-person ✨✨
Free, members-only advance screening! MARTY SUPREME (2025) / THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY (1999) in 35mm + Q&A with actor Gwyneth Paltrow.
Coming to the Aero on Wed. 12/10:
www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/...
Free, members-only advance screening! MARTY SUPREME (2025) / THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY (1999) in 35mm + Q&A with actor Gwyneth Paltrow.
Coming to the Aero on Wed. 12/10:
www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/...
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
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... and we're off! Cannot wait to work Scarlett on this. She is going to be amazing. deadline.com/2025/11/scar...
Scarlett Johansson To Star In New ‘Exorcist’ Movie From Blumhouse-Atomic Monster, Morgan Creek And Universal
Scarlett Johansson is set to star in the new 'Exorcist' movie from Blumhouse
deadline.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:53 PM
... and we're off! Cannot wait to work Scarlett on this. She is going to be amazing. deadline.com/2025/11/scar...
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No one should have their kid taken from them just because they are poor. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
This Is How the Child Welfare System Becomes Less Traumatizing
Wisconsin has shown that it’s cost-effective and completely possible to keep families together by stabilizing their housing. That’s not the only promising development in the field.
www.thenation.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
No one should have their kid taken from them just because they are poor. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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“Artificial intelligence, meet artificial accounting.” The guy who first pointed out Enron’s sketchy accounting is now scrutinizing AI accounting and it’s the same nonsense: www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai...
AI Meets Aggressive Accounting at Meta’s Gigantic New Data Center
Favorable treatment off the balance sheet hinges on some convenient assumptions.
www.wsj.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
“Artificial intelligence, meet artificial accounting.” The guy who first pointed out Enron’s sketchy accounting is now scrutinizing AI accounting and it’s the same nonsense: www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai...
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Ruth Asawa is no stranger to San Franciscans—my son goes to the art school named after her—but this exhibition is truly amazing. Do yourselves a favor, New Yorkers, go see it at (your) MOMA www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/a...
Ruth Asawa Turned Wire Into Her Lifeline
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Ruth Asawa is no stranger to San Franciscans—my son goes to the art school named after her—but this exhibition is truly amazing. Do yourselves a favor, New Yorkers, go see it at (your) MOMA www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/a...
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'Read widely, deeply, and joyfully' 🛋️
Award-winning author and tutor of our upcoming Writing Memoir & Narrative Non-fiction course @wylmenmuir.bsky.social discusses his writing process, the books that he’s been reading recently and his advice for budding writers.
Award-winning author and tutor of our upcoming Writing Memoir & Narrative Non-fiction course @wylmenmuir.bsky.social discusses his writing process, the books that he’s been reading recently and his advice for budding writers.
Wyl Menmuir on writing | Author interview
Award-winning author Wyl Menmuir discusses his writing process, the books that he’s been reading recently and his advice for budding writers.
www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 11:18 AM
'Read widely, deeply, and joyfully' 🛋️
Award-winning author and tutor of our upcoming Writing Memoir & Narrative Non-fiction course @wylmenmuir.bsky.social discusses his writing process, the books that he’s been reading recently and his advice for budding writers.
Award-winning author and tutor of our upcoming Writing Memoir & Narrative Non-fiction course @wylmenmuir.bsky.social discusses his writing process, the books that he’s been reading recently and his advice for budding writers.
"When Roosevelt embarked on his antitrust campaign in 1902, he did so with the view that it was necessary to preserve democracy." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | How Can Anyone Seriously Doubt Meta Is a Monopoly?
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
"When Roosevelt embarked on his antitrust campaign in 1902, he did so with the view that it was necessary to preserve democracy." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
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Two scientists who are fast friends, one Nigerian and one American, have won the MacArthur Foundation's 100&Change competition for their network to catch the next disease with pandemic potential.
$100 million prize goes to dynamic duo aiming to stop next pandemic before it starts
Two scientists who are fast friends, one Nigerian and one American, have won the MacArthur Foundation's 100&Change competition for their network to catch the next disease with pandemic potential.
n.pr
November 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Two scientists who are fast friends, one Nigerian and one American, have won the MacArthur Foundation's 100&Change competition for their network to catch the next disease with pandemic potential.
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"She held up her fist. It wore a fluffy down."
This is a gorgeous piece of writing from @melostrom.bsky.social 🧚💫
This is a gorgeous piece of writing from @melostrom.bsky.social 🧚💫
Excited to have a flash in the beautiful latest issue of The Maine Review.♥️
www.mainereview.com/the-wing/
www.mainereview.com/the-wing/
The Wing - The Maine Review
The morning Nadine’s feathers sprouted, a light snow fell. She was standing outside, watching Meg board the school bus, noticing how the little girl’s hair, frizzy like her own, glistened with snow, m...
www.mainereview.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
"She held up her fist. It wore a fluffy down."
This is a gorgeous piece of writing from @melostrom.bsky.social 🧚💫
This is a gorgeous piece of writing from @melostrom.bsky.social 🧚💫
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“The FBI gained access to conversations in a “courtwatch” Signal group that helps coordinate volunteer activists who monitor public proceedings at 3 New York federal immigration courts. The US govt has repeatedly been accused of violating immigrants’ due process rights at those courts.”🚨
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:34 PM
“The FBI gained access to conversations in a “courtwatch” Signal group that helps coordinate volunteer activists who monitor public proceedings at 3 New York federal immigration courts. The US govt has repeatedly been accused of violating immigrants’ due process rights at those courts.”🚨
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I did this, and that meant it stopped dividing my inbox into 'important/not important' and christ I don't know how to say this but... it turns out that that little bit of so-called 'smart help' was making my inbox much harder to manage?
November 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I did this, and that meant it stopped dividing my inbox into 'important/not important' and christ I don't know how to say this but... it turns out that that little bit of so-called 'smart help' was making my inbox much harder to manage?
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I’ll be on The Beat with Ari talking Epstein. Strange not going to 30
Rock!
Rock!
November 20, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I’ll be on The Beat with Ari talking Epstein. Strange not going to 30
Rock!
Rock!
From afternoon writing break…
November 20, 2025 at 11:05 PM
From afternoon writing break…
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The billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott is funneling tens of millions of dollars into tribal higher education, months after the Trump administration sought to cut one of the system’s most essential funding sources.
MacKenzie Scott Expands Giving Spree to Tribal Colleges
The billionaire philanthropist is steering millions of dollars toward tribal schools, after the Trump administration proposed a significant federal funding cut.
nyti.ms
November 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott is funneling tens of millions of dollars into tribal higher education, months after the Trump administration sought to cut one of the system’s most essential funding sources.
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Someone is buying up American starter homes and pricing you out. But it’s not who you’ve been told. #EconSky #Housing #PolSky #RonanFarrow
November 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Someone is buying up American starter homes and pricing you out. But it’s not who you’ve been told. #EconSky #Housing #PolSky #RonanFarrow
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Headline's a bit misleading. They're not worried that AI will replace them because it's good, but because "generative AI trained on vast amounts of [stolen] fiction will undermine the value of writing" itself
1/ We are pleased to have participated in this new report, which reflects the deep concerns we know our members have when it comes to Artificial Intelligence
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Novelists worried AI could replace them, Cambridge report finds
A Cambridge report says about half of those surveyed think AI could
www.bbc.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Headline's a bit misleading. They're not worried that AI will replace them because it's good, but because "generative AI trained on vast amounts of [stolen] fiction will undermine the value of writing" itself
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From Lori Marino, founder of the Whale Sanctuary Project; also of @safinacenter.bsky.social (gift link). www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/1760cd5...
The age of keeping whales and dolphins in captivity must finally come to an end
Research shows it is not possible for captive cetaceans to thrive in concrete pools
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:31 AM
From Lori Marino, founder of the Whale Sanctuary Project; also of @safinacenter.bsky.social (gift link). www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/1760cd5...